Subspecies in India
(2) Neptis clinia praedicta Smetacek, 2011 – West Himalayan Sullied Sailer
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This species has so far been recorded from Andaman & Nicobar Islands UT, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand and West Bengal within Indian Limits.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
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| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
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| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 14 | |||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Kerala | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Meghalaya | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Nagaland | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 8 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 21 |
Celtis spp., Trema orientale (Cannabaceae). Ceiba pentandra, Sterculia villosa (Malvaceae). Ficus spp. (Moraceae). Boehmeria virgata (=Boehmeria macrophylla) (Aditya Kanwal and Abhay Soman pers. obs. 2018) (Urticaceae).
Key Reference:
Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10(4): 11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
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Page citation
Baiju K, K. Sadasivan, V. K. Chandrasekharan, S. Gayathri, A. Kanwal, and A. Soman 2025. Neptis clinia Moore, 1872 – Sullied Sailer. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/neptis-clinia, accessed 2025/11/01.